Mandrake 8.0 problems

[Saul Thurrowgood]

> Also, I have no access to all /mnt/<ANY DEV>, ie not to floppy, not to
> CDROM and not to zip drives... , not even as root !

Are they mounted there?

> Questions :
> * how do I gain access to my devices, I want to copy rtl3189.o over from
> my old version to new directory to see if it works !

Copying the driver from an older kernel version will not go very well ;)